f-v+alteration

Singular...............Plural knife....................knives wife.....................wives

My wife's mother is my mother-in-law. King Solomon had 1000 wives. His wives each had a mother.

His wives' mothers were his mothers-in-law.

Benjamin Blech's translation of a poem from the XXc Yiddish humorist "[|Shalom Aleichem]": A thousand wives were had //Toyzent vayber hat gehat //

//by **K** // **ing Solomon** //the wise.// //Shloymeh ha-melekh, der kliger. //

//But don't forget that with every wife // //Forgest nisht az tsu yeden vayb //

He also acquired a // **mother** //-in-// **law** //! //Hot er oykh gekrogen a shviger. //

//"fife"// (a kind of flute) has a regular plural - //fifes//. (source) //I am holding four cards in my hand and two of them are **fives**. // []

([|from]) edited by MKG There are 13 words that have this form in plural. calf, half, knife, life, wife, elf, self, shelf, leaf, sheaf, thief, loaf and wolf.

All words have the ending "ves" instead of "fs" or "fes".

Four words have two plural endings: "+s", "+ves". dwarf, hoof, scarf, wharf.

[] (< Wiki) mass noun

[] **naif** - a naive or inexperienced person [] 1893 [] **naïfs** //plural form of **<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|naïf] ** //

[] 1100's (XIIc) [] from cnafa

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